Guys Read Thriller
Jon Scieszka (editor)
Walden Pond, 2011
$16.99, Hardcover
978-0061963766
April 21st, 2012
Genre:
Mystery
Age: 8+
Description:
A collection of ten stories aimed to be thrillers to get guys to read. Includes
“Old Dead Nuisance” but M.T. Anderson about a boy who discovers his psychic
powers, “Double Eagle Has Landed” by Anthony Horowitz which is a Diamond
Brothers tale, and “Ghost Vision Glasses” by Patrick Carman about a boy who
likes weird stuff, gets these glasses from an old 70s comic book ad, and begins
to see ghosts with them.
Opinion: I
love that Brett Helquist is the illustrator for this volume. I love him! This
is a mixed bag story-wise though. Many of the stories really aren’t “thrillers.”
The best were Anderson
and Carman’s stories. The worst was “Pirates” by Walter Dean Myers which was
about Somali pirates and “Pudding” which was a short comic by Jarret J. Krosoczka—author
of the Lunch Lady series—because it ends so abruptly you think you skipped a
page somewhere. It’s hard to get a good short story collection and this one is
hit or miss. It is mainly enjoyable though.
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